Casket.



PATBNTBD SEPT. 22, 1993.

. J. D. RIPsoN.

GASKET.

APILIOATIUR FIHLBD .SHP'IL'ZB| 1902.

l0 MODEL.

femm' A, UNITED STATES Patented September 22, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ONE-HALF TO LEWIS J. BIRD,

OFv BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

f GASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part ef Letters Patent No. 739,509, dated september 22, 1903.

Application led September 29, 1902. Serial No. 125,192. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN D. RIPsoN, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Shelburne Falls, in the county of Franklin Aand State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Gaskets, of which the following de-r scription, in connection with the accompany# ing drawings, is a specification, like charac# ters on the drawings representing like parts.`

The invention to be hereinafter described relates to caskets, and has for its object the production of a simple and inexpensive structure wherein the body of the casket is com# posed of wood and the curved endsv of metal, preferably each of single pieces properly molded into shape; and with these general objects in view the invention consists of the parts and combinations, as will be hereinafter described, and deinitely pointed out in the claims.

Figure l, in side elevation, shows a closed casket embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a cross section in thev line w, Fig.l l; Fig. 3, a

partial longitudinal section through the body Fig. 4 shows parts of the casket at oneend. of the lid upturned, and Fig. 5 shows in plan view one end of the body of the casket with the lid removed.

The casket-body herein represented comprises a bottom board c, two sides b b, and two molded ends c c, said ends having suitable ornamental ribs d CZ. The end pieces, preferably of metal, have imparted to them the shape desired by the use of dies in a end of each end piece is united to a rim e, as

to yaccord' with the wooden molding f, applied to the lower edge of the side pieces o. The edge 2 of each curved end is overlapped on the end of a side piece band is secured there'- to by suitable fastenings 3, which may be screws or nails, and 'that the outer -side of each end piece shall -be flush with the sides of the side pieces b l have cut away (see Figs. l and 5) the outer face ofv the side pieces to leave a shoulder 4, theA depth of the shoulder being equal to the thickness of the metal of the end piece. The 4side pieces b are `provided, preferably, with wooden ribs g of the 'shape of the vmetallic-ribs CZ dof thev end piece. f

A casket constructed, as describedpfwood and metal is light in weight and may conse-` quently be handled easily, and it is cheap to construct, the cost of the production of `the casket being reducedg, owing to the fact that v the end pieces are molded to shape, thus obviating cutting pieces of wood into small sections, beveling their edges, putting them'together, and adding ornamental strips.

The lid is composed of a sheet-metal shell h, having an external liange' L, filled with a non-metallic frame m m, made in pieces and preferably of wood, the parts m being bent or worked out to present a curve, as best Y `represented in Fig. 4. `The lidand body are adapted to be united by suitable fastenings n.

The chief expense in the labor of producing a casket with curved ends lies in the iitting together of the wood constitutingvtheends.

l consider as within the scope of my inven tion the use of a molded endpieee of any material, whether of metal or pulp.

Having fully described my invention, .what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isara l. In a casket, a body formed of wooden sides and having metal ends, each of said ends being formed of a single Inetallie sheet, a Wooden 11n extending from the sides above the metal ends, and a inetalle lid having a nen-metallic frame to forni a non-metallic continuons Contact between the lid and top of the casket-body.

2. In a casket, a body formed 0l' Wooden sides and metal ends, each of said ends being formed of a single metallic sheet, a Wooden rim extending from the ends of the sides above the nietal ends, and a inetallie shelllike lid having an external flange, and a nonmetallic frame filling said flange to thereby forni a nen-metallic continuous Contact between the lid and top of casket-body.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name te this speeilieation in the presence el tive subscribing witnesses.

` JOHN D. RIPSON. lVitnesses GEORGE E. STEVENS, DAVID B. SHATTUCK. 

